Distro that compiles software in a single folder
 

Is there any distro in which the applications are installed into their own seperate folders ? Like windows.
I think PC-BSD does this with its PBI's . Is there any other linux distros that emulate this behaviour?

chroot jail? check chroot documentation.

thanks that looks pretty interesting..but wouln't dependencies be a problem ?

yes it would be.

another posibility is that giving make install DESTDIR=/path/install/dir to install (not every program supports it. autogen based build systems ususally adds it. grep -i destdir Makefile would give you the anwser to the question of weather it is supported. i use it for package build and testing. i even compiled gcc 4.4.2 and installed in my home dir and used it to compile wine64).

The only one I know of is GoboLinux. Don't know how actively it's developed, though.

My apologies for being off topic...

@ozanbaba:
I love the signature/quote. That's priceless.

:).

let me give you an example i actually did:

i configured and complied gcc 4.4.2 for wine64 tests. i did not want to install it system wide so i did this in gcc source folder.
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mkdir build #gcc people says we should build it in different folder than source folder.
cd build
../configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc --program-suffix=4.4 --enable-languages=c,c++
make bootstrap-lean #so i can save from space as i have problem with disk space
make install # it will install it to $HOME/gcc
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alternative way to do it is like this which should be more general